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HEADLINE: Poker pro wins $2.3 million
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Las Vegas poker pro Freddy Deeb won $2.3 million Friday morning,
beating out a field of 148 players in the World Series of Poker.
Deeb won the $50,000 buy-in HORSE event after a grueling 15-hour
final table match that began play at 2 p.m. Thursday. Joking throughout
the match, Deeb kept up the humor until the 5 a.m. finish.
"You know what did it? The lucky shirt," he said.
The winner's purse was the fifth biggest in World Series history,
falling just short of the $2.5 million that Chris Moneymaker won
when he emerged from an Internet qualifier to beat a field of
839 in 2003.
Top names including Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein and Annie
Duke sat down to play the marathon event Sunday in a field that
had more World Series bracelet winners than not. The $10,000 main
event begins next Friday.
HORSE, which stands for five games
of poker -- Hold
'Em, Omaha,
Razz, Stud and Eight or Better -- tests the all-around player
more than the No
Limit Hold 'Em game.
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